Freedom's pen : a story based on the life of freed slave and author Phillis Wheatley

Lawton, Wendy.

Book 2009

A fictionalized biography of the girl who was brought to America from Gambia as a slave and who later gained fame as an African American poet of great renown, from her time in Africa until she gained her freedom.

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